BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF PHILIP LUTLEY SCLATER. XV 



Williiiiu Lutlcy Sclater, lias iiihoriled his father's tastes: he was for 

 fourj-ears an assistant in the Indian Museum in Calcutta, and after a 

 short term of sei'vice as science master at Eton College was appointed 

 director of tlu^ South African Museum at Cape Town, a position which 

 he now occupies. 



The second son, Capt. Bertram Lutlej' Sclater, is an otRcer in the 

 RoAJil Engineers, and is now on duty in British East Africa, con- 

 structing a road to Uganda from the coast. 



The third son, Lieut. Ouy Lutley Sclater, an oflRcer in the Royal 

 Navy, is a specialist in torpedo work; while the youngest, Arthur 

 Lutley Sclater, is a tea planter in Ceylon. 



In 1887, after a continuous residence of more than twenty-five 

 years in London, he gave up his residence in Elvaston Place, where 

 so many American naturalists visiting England have received a 

 hearty welcome. He has since lived in Hampshire at his country 

 house, "Odiham Priory," about forty miles from town, taking a house 

 for his family in London for three or four months at the beginning 

 of each year. In summer he constantlj" visits the Continent, making 

 excursions to see the various zoological gardens and museums. 



Mr. Sclater received the degree of doctor of philosophy honoris 

 caiisn from the University of Bonn in 18G0, and in ISGl Avas elected a 

 fellow of the Royal Society, on the council of which he lias twice 

 served. \h has already been said, he has long been an active mem- 

 bcj- of the Council of the British Association for the Advancement of 

 Science, as well as of that of the Royal Geographical Society. 



A list of the other scientific and learned societies of whicli he is a 

 member is as follows: 



Fellow of Liunean Society of London (1856); member of Allgemeine 

 deutsche ornithologische Gesellschaft (1850); coiTcsponding member 

 of Acadeni}^ of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (185(5); corresponding 

 member of Lyceum of Natural Ilistoiy, New York (1857); corre- 

 sponding member of Dublin University Zoological and Botanical 

 Association (1859); member of British Ornithologists' Union (185!»); 

 meml)er of Academia Gei-manica Natune Curiosoi'uin, cognomine 

 " Bechstein " (18(i()); honorary member of Sociedad de Naturalistas 

 Neo-Granadinos (18G0) ; honorary member of Royal Zoological Society 

 of Ireland (18G1); member of k. k. zoologisch-botanische Gesell- 

 schaft in Wien (18Gi^); member of Philosophical Club (18Gl>); honor- 

 ary member of Zoologische Gesellschaft in Hamburg (18G3); honorary 

 member of Zoological and Acclimatization Society of Victoria (18G5); 

 honorary mem])er of Rottei-daiusche Diergaarde (18G()); coi-respoud- 

 ing memlier of the Gesellschaft fiir vaterlandische Natui-kunde in 

 Wiirttemberg (18G7); honorary member of the Sociedad de Cieiicias 

 Fisicas y Naturales of Caracas (18G9); corresponding member of 

 Academia Scientiai-uiii Iiistituti liononieusis (1870); honoi-ai-y mem- 

 ber of Koninklijk Zo(;logisch Genootschap " Natui'a Art is Magistra " 

 of Amsterdam (1871); member of Geologists' Association, London 



